Tag: airbag lawsuit

On Tuesday, Honda announced that it was recalling an additional 772,000 Honda & Acura vehicles in the U.S. for potentially defective and deadly air bag inflators made by the Japanese supplier, Takata Corp. (ABC news report.) More than 100 million vehicles with these airbags involving 17 automakers have been recalled worldwide, including 69 million in…

Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that new test data on a particular subset of defective Takata air bag inflators in certain model-year 2001-2003 Honda and Acura vehicles show a far higher risk of ruptures during air bag deployment. This finding prompted an urgent call from the NHTSA to ensure that unrepaired…